Libby to Get Limited Classified Info

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Libby to Get Limited Classified Info


Friday June 2, 2006 9:16 PM

By TONI LOCY

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - A former White House aide facing perjury charges will get only
a prosecutor's summary of classified documents assessing the damage to national
security from the leak of a CIA officer's identity, a federal judge ruled Friday.

U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton also said lawyers for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby
must settle for a prosecutor's version of information contained in secret government
documents that describe CIA officer Valerie Plame's employment history.

Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, is charged with perjury
and obstruction of justice for lying to the FBI and a federal grand jury about how he
learned about Plame's CIA status and what he subsequently told reporters about her.
His trial is scheduled for January.

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In a separate order Friday, Walton reiterated his denial during a hearing last month
of Libby's requests for any documents generated by officials in the White House,
CIA and State Department about a trip Plame's husband, former U.S. Ambassador Joseph
Wilson, took at the CIA's request in early 2002 to Niger.

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